I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind

Love isn’t about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.